airshaft
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈɛrˌʃæft/
- Specialized
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pozo de aire
- The airshafts and vertical wells seemed to me to be incredible engineering feats.
Examples
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She opened the window to the airshaft, leaned out, and peered up to check on the weather.
Fiction book (1992) -
In older apartments, residents often complained about the odors rising from the airshaft.
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Through the kitchen, she could see the snow falling into the airshaft.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm not going back into that airshaft.
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I took them through every crawlspace and airshaft that one could fit into.
Blog text (8) -
Kohke looked back at the window leading into the airshaft.
Fiction book (2000) -
The light in the small kitchen brightened, then dimmed, as the sun momentarily bounced off a window across the airshaft.
Fiction book (1992) -
He dropped the cassettes down the airshaft, except for one, marked Aqua Vitae, which he inserted into the machine.
Fiction book (2000) -
Compromising, he rented a new apartment in the same building—one floor lower than the original apartment but identical in every other respect: three dusty rooms, doors sufficiently wide to admit Bein's wheelchair, and the final room with a window opening on an airshaft.
Fiction book (2000) -
The architect designed the building with a central airshaft to improve air circulation between floors.
Synonyms
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2.8
A channel like a pipe that moves air to bring fresh air into buildings
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4.7
A vertical passage in a building or mine that lets air move through spaces
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4.5
A passage in a building that lets fresh air in and stale air out
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3.5
A channel that moves air in or out of places like buildings and mines
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4.5
A passage that brings fresh air into mines and tunnels
A vertical space in a building that lets fresh air move
A shaft in a mine that sends air out
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Etymology
Airshaft combines air ('air') and shaft ('narrow vertical passage'), like an elevator shaft or a 'shaft of light' that goes up and down. That's why an airshaft is a vertical passage in a building or mine that lets fresh air move between levels.